@inproceedings{liu-etal-2021-neural,
title = "Neural Quality Estimation with Multiple Hypotheses for Grammatical Error Correction",
author = "Liu, Zhenghao and
Yi, Xiaoyuan and
Sun, Maosong and
Yang, Liner and
Chua, Tat-Seng",
editor = "Toutanova, Kristina and
Rumshisky, Anna and
Zettlemoyer, Luke and
Hakkani-Tur, Dilek and
Beltagy, Iz and
Bethard, Steven and
Cotterell, Ryan and
Chakraborty, Tanmoy and
Zhou, Yichao",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
month = jun,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.429",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.429",
pages = "5441--5452",
abstract = "Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) aims to correct writing errors and help language learners improve their writing skills. However, existing GEC models tend to produce spurious corrections or fail to detect lots of errors. The quality estimation model is necessary to ensure learners get accurate GEC results and avoid misleading from poorly corrected sentences. Well-trained GEC models can generate several high-quality hypotheses through decoding, such as beam search, which provide valuable GEC evidence and can be used to evaluate GEC quality. However, existing models neglect the possible GEC evidence from different hypotheses. This paper presents the Neural Verification Network (VERNet) for GEC quality estimation with multiple hypotheses. VERNet establishes interactions among hypotheses with a reasoning graph and conducts two kinds of attention mechanisms to propagate GEC evidence to verify the quality of generated hypotheses. Our experiments on four GEC datasets show that VERNet achieves state-of-the-art grammatical error detection performance, achieves the best quality estimation results, and significantly improves GEC performance by reranking hypotheses. All data and source codes are available at \url{https://github.com/thunlp/VERNet}.",
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%T Neural Quality Estimation with Multiple Hypotheses for Grammatical Error Correction
%A Liu, Zhenghao
%A Yi, Xiaoyuan
%A Sun, Maosong
%A Yang, Liner
%A Chua, Tat-Seng
%Y Toutanova, Kristina
%Y Rumshisky, Anna
%Y Zettlemoyer, Luke
%Y Hakkani-Tur, Dilek
%Y Beltagy, Iz
%Y Bethard, Steven
%Y Cotterell, Ryan
%Y Chakraborty, Tanmoy
%Y Zhou, Yichao
%S Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
%D 2021
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
%F liu-etal-2021-neural
%X Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) aims to correct writing errors and help language learners improve their writing skills. However, existing GEC models tend to produce spurious corrections or fail to detect lots of errors. The quality estimation model is necessary to ensure learners get accurate GEC results and avoid misleading from poorly corrected sentences. Well-trained GEC models can generate several high-quality hypotheses through decoding, such as beam search, which provide valuable GEC evidence and can be used to evaluate GEC quality. However, existing models neglect the possible GEC evidence from different hypotheses. This paper presents the Neural Verification Network (VERNet) for GEC quality estimation with multiple hypotheses. VERNet establishes interactions among hypotheses with a reasoning graph and conducts two kinds of attention mechanisms to propagate GEC evidence to verify the quality of generated hypotheses. Our experiments on four GEC datasets show that VERNet achieves state-of-the-art grammatical error detection performance, achieves the best quality estimation results, and significantly improves GEC performance by reranking hypotheses. All data and source codes are available at https://github.com/thunlp/VERNet.
%R 10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.429
%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.429
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.429
%P 5441-5452
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[Neural Quality Estimation with Multiple Hypotheses for Grammatical Error Correction](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.429) (Liu et al., NAACL 2021)
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